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Some of the artwork, both finished and concept sketches, prepared by Lee Sullivan for the webcast of Real Time.

For more of Lee Sullivan’s Dr Who artwork see the links section.

Apart from his “standard” Mk VIII Cybermen, this selection also includes his Cybercontroller, partially converted Cybermen (Cyberslaves / Cyberdrones), Cybermats and assorted other goodies. The 6th Doctor’s costume also looks as lot more tasteful that his TV version…

Artist Lee Sullivan has been working with the Cybermen for quite some time. He’s come a long way from his early Cyberman illustrations (age 7) ….

Making his mark along the way by providing art for Doctor Who Magazine…

And drawing the Cybermen for the Battles in Time comic strip which you can read here

You can see more of Lee Sullivan’s Doctor Who art on his own website here

His Mark VIII Cyber-creations appeared in the Radio Times 8th Doctor comic-strip Dreadnought – which you can read here. (Roughly) the same Mk 8 design later appeared in the 6th Doctor webcast of Real Time – which you can watch here. And the Mk 8 Cybermen – or a close relation – might have appeared in a comic strip featurig a future Doctor prior to the relaunch of the TV series in 2005. Sadly, it was never made…

REAL TIME

The Mk VIII appeared in the Real Time webcast – and has also been given CGI graphic treatment…

“Dreadnought” was a story in the short-lived series of comic-strips about the 8th Doctor published by the Radio Times in 1996. Although planned for a longer run, the comic strip series was cancelled somewhat suddenly (obliging its author, Gary Russell, to tie up some loose ends that were intended to be part of a longer running story arc).

The Doctor appears on a space vessel called the Dreadnought. Here he meets Stacy, who is running from the Cybermen. They capture the Doctor and Stacy, and they find out that Stacy’s fiancé Bill has become a Cyberman. When Stacy makes him remember their friendship, he makes the ultimate sacrifice. He gets killed, but he stops the Cybermen, and after this the Doctor and Stacy have many adventures.

Note : In the 10th Doctor special “The Next Doctor”, the gigantic “Cyberking” was said to be a Dreadnought class vehicle. Dreadnoughts were said to be used during Cyber-invasions. Presumably either the 10th Doctor has encountered the Cybus Cybermen using such ships in some off-screen adventure, or he was referring to the use of such vessels by this-universe Cybermen.

“Dreadnought” featured a new and updated form of Cybermen (effectively a Mk VIII version), a redesign that was the work of artist Lee Sullivan. This design (or one based very closely upon it) later appeared in the 6th Doctor webcast “Real Time” – again drawn by Lee Sullivan. (There will be more on this Cyber-design in a future post).

Dreadnought featured the comic debut of the Eighth Doctor. His was the first incarnation since the Fourth Doctor to make his comic debut outside Doctor Who Magazine.

Dreadnought was followed by the story Descendance (featuring a return of the Ice Warriors).

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SW Starship Miniature Battles A-Wings repainted (on account of the FFG ones being the wrong scale) - 3 for Green Squadron and 1 for the Prototype. By a happy coincidence, I noticed the that the green visible on the main hull goes 1, 2, 3 - so that helps with assigning callsigns.And alongside the FFG X-Wing just to illustrate the scale.

A reasonably productive weekend:N scale 1/160, two resin Coupe's and a plastic VW Beetle, post-apocalypsed up and painted. Vaguely aiming for something akin to the boardgame team colours, do have a third Coupe but haven't settled on the colour yet.Warboys are courtesy of Hawk Wargames 10mm Dropzone Commander Resistance Berserker Infantry, slightly […]

Like pretty much everyone in the hobby, Mad Max was a major inspiration, unfortunately practicallity meant doing the 28mm versions doing the various rounds was just too big a project to store along with everything else (besides my brother got custody of Dark Future when we grew up and moved out) - although the two version of Furiosa out there are both gettin […]

Here are my first attempts at Green Stuff miniatures...Firstly; Melody Brook; adventurer and space-traveller. Here she is wearing a basic sheep-skin and armed with a holstered weapon. Could be from any time zone; present or future. Hello Sweetie!From a practical point of view she's a little on the large side when compared to other miniatures... some […]

One more addition to the first batch of scratch-builds.This time a Smiler from The Beast Below. Again, this is sculpted entirely from Super Sculpey clay.I gave the figure a detachable head so it could rotate to show both the "smiley" and "angry" faces.

Those of you familiar with my old Google-Sites page may remember the Krynoid that I scratch-built from Milliput. Well, over the last month I've been experimenting with a new medium - oven-bake clay.All of the models below, with the exception of the Tenth Doctor, are scratch-built using Super Sculpey clay.A bit more practice needed, especially on hands […]

In an interruption to the usual programme, I, Debs at Saddle Goose Designs, have invaded Matt's blog. Rich and Nick at Toofatlardies https://toofatlardies.co.uk/ have kindly agreed that I can use their images on embroidered merchandise. This follows on from the very successful dice bags which are of course still available. I was going to wait until my w […]

Games Workshop has announced a plethora of pre-releases for its forthcoming The Hobbit games, the main release being a boxed Escape From Goblin Town (RRP £75 but cheaper from the likes of Wayland Games).Hunter OrcsThe TrollsHunter Orcs on Fell Wargs

Ragnarok 59 is now at the printers. If you want a printed copy then you need to join the SFSFW now!Issue 59 contains:Aftermath - Fantasy Battle scenarioBurning Down The House - Dirtside II scenarioThe Drake Incident - Star Trek battleMessing About On The River - generic fantasy campaignTo Keep Man, Man - the Instrumentality of Mankind The World Needs Heroes […]